John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . s. ? The prosperity of the Protestant communityat Dieppe continued after Knoxs departure. Ata celebration of the Holy Communion, a monthafter the Reformer had left the town, betweensix and eight hundred persons took part, includingthe Governor of the Castle and some of theleading inhabitants. Ere long two congregationswere established; one of these being in the RuedEcosse. Knox kept up, through correspond-ence, his connection with the church which, at acritical time, had been so deeply indebted to building would be at the disposal of Protestan
John Knox : the hero of the Scottish Reformation . s. ? The prosperity of the Protestant communityat Dieppe continued after Knoxs departure. Ata celebration of the Holy Communion, a monthafter the Reformer had left the town, betweensix and eight hundred persons took part, includingthe Governor of the Castle and some of theleading inhabitants. Ere long two congregationswere established; one of these being in the RuedEcosse. Knox kept up, through correspond-ence, his connection with the church which, at acritical time, had been so deeply indebted to building would be at the disposal of Protestants, and it ismore likely (as suggested to the writer by M. Hardy, thePastor of the Reformed Church at Dieppe, that Knox con-ducted service in the house of a wealthy Protestant lady,called H£lene Bouchard, in whose dwelling Jean Venableheld his meetings in 1557 (Vitet, Hist, des anc. villes de , 97, 98) (1833). The earliest historical record of anychurch building occupied by the Reformed community re-lates to the year Duval, i., Rue dEcosse, Dieppe.(Several of the houses on the right existed in Knoxs time.) i559] On the Continent 151 his active zeal: and he wrote several comfort-able letters to the Protestant membership en-couraging them to remain steadfast in the 1625 and 1630 the number of adherentsexceeded five During his entire public life Knox was resolutelyopposed to a Scoto-French Alliance, which at thatepoch involved the peril, if not the ruin, of theScottish Reformation. But his brief yet effect-ive ministry at Dieppe proves that the hardshipswhich he had suffered from France detracted inno degree from his desire to devote freely to thegenuine service of Frenchmen his time, gifts, andstrength. ADDITIONAL NOTE TO CHAPTER V Knox on Predestination Predestination was a burning question in Genevaduring Knoxs ministry there. Shortly before hissettlement in the city, Castellio, Professor of Greekin Basel University, had published a tr
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